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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Benjamin Carson

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Allowing Fear Peril
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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Country Job Order
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything God Try Trying
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Done might Operating Room
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Knowing Smarter Thinking
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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Flesh Mind Spiritual
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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Honesty Truth Worry
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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Life Love Powerful Simple
I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fulfill Helping Lives Want
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Gay Long People
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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Problem School Thinking Winning
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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Daughter Government Lying
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Able Brain Important Rapidly
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest
Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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Attitude Mental Positive Use
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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Cutting Doctor Keys
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important Our Success World
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Matter Trying
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Looks People Problem
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fruit Harvest Labor
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Choices Poverty Realizing
It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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Important People Risk
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Happiness Inspiring Success
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Government Issues
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dark Night Skeletons

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